controller card

[SB]

Can anyone suggest a good controller card to go with? I
need to use one so that I can use the full capacity of my
hard drive in xp. Sp1 and all of the updates and hot
fixes and even enabling LBA has not worked. My bios does
show my drive as full capacity but xp does not. It only
shows the 137 gb limitation with an unallocated space of
20 something. I do not want to reformat and reinstall
everything. I was told that a controller card would
overcome that and allow my hard drive to be used at the
full capacity in xp. Once installed, I would have to
reactivate xp and would there be any conflict ince xp is
already installed with all of my programs? Appreciate
and advice.

 

[Peter]

What makes you think you need a controller card? Did you install Windows XP
or was it on an OEM system you bought?... If you did it, probably you didn't
see the option to delete the old partition (if there was one with something
on it?) and format the whole drive (minus a few gigs for Xp which takes
about 2 gigs etc headroom) you would have deleted the old partition and set
a new one and then format the drive which would give you all that it could
under XP protocols..
Is the drive formatted NTFS? a lot of stuff you didn't include could
help, so i assumed some of this...

 

[DL]

If you formated prior to enabling biglba you will have 137gb. After enabling
biglba you will have unallocated space. You can, in xp, format this space to
giv two partitions, or use a third party utility eg Partition Magic to
expand your 137gb partition to utilise this space.
However there have been psts from MVP to suggest that utilising this space
after enabling biglba could lead to data loss/corruption. It would appear
therefore that you may be advised to delete the partition and format anew.
PS Your Q is worded v.similarly to one that has allready been answered

 

[SB]

It is the retail version of xp and it was formatted using
NTFS that was installed on a brand new hard drive with
nothing on it and and xp formatted the hard drive so that
windows could be installed and it did say if anything
were on the drive, it would deleted in favor of the new
partition. The hard drive utility even said 137 would be
used til xp and all of the updates were installed but
that has not worked.

 

[SB]

I have read other posts were some had the similar problem
as me and thought it would be best to word it similar so
that people new what problem I had. By the way, I did
read a post where someone said something about using
partitioning software to see if that would help with his
hard drive. If you did format a new partition and delete
the old one, could it not cause you to go through the
mess again, especially enabling LBA. That's what I do
not get. Would you have to enable it in the mb bios?

-----Original Message-----
If you formated prior to enabling biglba you will have 137gb. After enabling
biglba you will have unallocated space. You can, in xp, format this space to
giv two partitions, or use a third party utility eg Partition Magic to
expand your 137gb partition to utilise this space.
However there have been psts from MVP to suggest that utilising this space
after enabling biglba could lead to data

loss/corruption. It would appear

 

[DL]

If you format prior to enabling biglba, once enabled you will have the
'extra' unused space. This space is not available to xp untill either the
space is formated to a new, second partition, or you delete the existing
137gb partition and completely format the disk.